losing firewire devices

[jd]

Does anyone know why I keep losing my firewire devices?
They will show up in the Device Manager with an
exclamation point...and then I have to uninstall then
reinstall the device to use it again.

I am using two devices...an external WD drive and an
external QuieFire (QPS) CDRW.

I saw where Microsoft acknowledged this as a problem one
of their IEEE KB articles, but I didnt' see where it was
resolved. They said to unplug and replug the device;
however, this problem occurs all of the time.

Thanks for any help...-jd

[MM]

You may want to give this a try. It works with CDRW's not wanting to work
all the time.
Unplug your firewire devices and reboot the computer. As it leaves the boot
screen, press F8 and boot into Safe Mode. Open System Properties, Hardware
tab, Device Manager. Expand the IEEE 1394 Bus Host entry and right click on
the device and Uninstall it. Ok the windows and reboot the computer and let
XP reinstall the 1394 firewire controller.

Rich

[Kurt W. Graessle]

10 days ago I swiched from W2K to XP.
After that I had a lot of troubles with my 5 firewire HDD. Like: Disk
get lost, RPC errors, CHKDSK failes. Backup crashed etc. Dozens of
restarts and an overflowing eventlog (System) with many crosses. BTW
some ot the probleme I had before also with W2K.

Then I got the tip that Norton Anivirus 2003 could be the cause of all
this troubles.
I threw Norton out and see - touch wood - the troubles were gone.
I have not a single enty in the eventlog (system) since.
It looks like Norton is not compatible with XP and/or Firewire.
Could it be that it conflicts with RPC?
I replaced it with the German GData Antivirenkit 12
WWW.GData.de

I would like to get reactions.

Kurt

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:21:39 -0700, "jd"
> wrote:

>Does anyone know why I keep losing my firewire devices?
>They will show up in the Device Manager with an
>exclamation point...and then I have to uninstall then
>reinstall the device to use it again.
>
>I am using two devices...an external WD drive and an
>external QuieFire (QPS) CDRW.
>
>I saw where Microsoft acknowledged this as a problem one
>of their IEEE KB articles, but I didnt' see where it was
>resolved. They said to unplug and replug the device;
>however, this problem occurs all of the time.
>
>Thanks for any help...-jd

[Paul]

Nortons work ok here Kurt. I use 2003
Never had a prob with it, with this firewire

Nortons 2002 I think, also works
with XP. I had it installed before
without probs. I would say it was
either the upgrade from 2; to XP.

Or the install of Nortons u had was faulty,
or it may have been auto-protect?
running in the background, if you installed
programs, with it on.


<Kurt W. Graessle> wrote in message
...
> 10 days ago I swiched from W2K to XP.
> After that I had a lot of troubles with my 5 firewire HDD. Like: Disk
> get lost, RPC errors, CHKDSK failes. Backup crashed etc. Dozens of
> restarts and an overflowing eventlog (System) with many crosses. BTW
> some ot the probleme I had before also with W2K.
>
> Then I got the tip that Norton Anivirus 2003 could be the cause of all
> this troubles.
> I threw Norton out and see - touch wood - the troubles were gone.
> I have not a single enty in the eventlog (system) since.
> It looks like Norton is not compatible with XP and/or Firewire.
> Could it be that it conflicts with RPC?
> I replaced it with the German GData Antivirenkit 12
> WWW.GData.de
>
> I would like to get reactions.
>
> Kurt
>
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:21:39 -0700, "jd"
> > wrote:
>
> >Does anyone know why I keep losing my firewire devices?
> >They will show up in the Device Manager with an
> >exclamation point...and then I have to uninstall then
> >reinstall the device to use it again.
> >
> >I am using two devices...an external WD drive and an
> >external QuieFire (QPS) CDRW.
> >
> >I saw where Microsoft acknowledged this as a problem one
> >of their IEEE KB articles, but I didnt' see where it was
> >resolved. They said to unplug and replug the device;
> >however, this problem occurs all of the time.
> >
> >Thanks for any help...-jd
>